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Andy Culpepper -> RE: My own bracing pattern (Feb. 11 2011 19:56:24)
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Stephen, try to relax amigo. Like I said it's totally experimental and certainly won't go towards an order if it actually ever gets built at all. Once again I don't understand your bitterness. I guess you're just trying to add to your irreverent image [:D]
I do agree though that the only and best way to really learn and improve is to modify a bracing pattern very incrementally over time, shaving off .1 mm here and there or whatever. Which is what I've been doing and will continue to do with my regular bracing system.
I'm not expecting this to rock the guitarmaking world but sometimes you get some crazy ideas in your head that just won't seem to leave until you let them have their say. [:)]
The Gerundino part is actually the diagonal thingies (namely shorter 1st and 7th braces that are much more angled than the middle 5). I just chose to run them up through the harmonic bar because I wanted to open it up and needed some support under there. The high cutoffs is something seen on some 70s Condes.
My hypothesis about the open harmonic bars, which could be 100% BS, is that they can lend a certain human, singing quality. I think of those areas kind of like the sinuses and other resonating areas in the human body that can provide harmonics to a sung note.
Also, more importantly actually, I just don't see the NEED for that much extra cross-grain stiffness up there.
Basically I like the design I've been building, but it makes a very ballsy, testosterone driven, punchy kind of thing that can be a bit one-dimensional.
With this design, if I do build it, I'd be going for a more complex and dark sound but still trying to retain good dryness and percussive qualities.
There is probably at least a 50% chance that I won't like the result but there may be something there that I'm willing to work with.. who knows. Maybe it would be better suited to a classical.
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